Steam Press

Steam Press is a New Zealand publisher specialising in speculative fiction. Fantasy, horror, and science fiction; utopias, dystopias, and the coming apocalypse; punks of the cyber, steam, and diesel persuasion – these are our raison d’etre. Steam Press was established because we believe that New Zealand’s authors of speculative fiction should not have to send their work offshore to have any hope of seeing it in print. We want to read locally written titles that make us sit up all night with stupid grins on our faces and then forget to get off the train the next morning, and we want to hold books that are as beautiful as they are exciting, books that reflect the quality of their content rather than the demands of an accounts department. When readers tell us that they would buy more books if they looked like The Prince of Soul and the Herald on Sunday calls Steam Press “the best new New Zealand publisher” and the second book we release is listed in the Listener’s list of the top 100 books of 2012, I figure we’re off to a pretty good start.